Japanese barberry has become a mainstay of Pennsylvania landscaping because it is uninhibited by weather, poor soil or natural predators. But, for those same reasons, a panel of agriculture experts is ...

It's not only full-size trees that put on an amazing fall color display when autumn arrives. Quite a few deciduous shrubs turn red in the fall before they lose their leaves for the winter. If you want ...

Sometimes the best new garden shrubs are really old garden standbys that plant breeders have worked their magic on to create new cultivars. Such is the case with the Japanese barberries (Berberis ...

Japanese barberry, a red-berried ornamental shrub that graces many a yard in Lancaster County, and Bradford pear trees, still celebrated for their explosion of white blossoms on Lancaster city streets ...

A: For E. B., especially: My guess is that you are thinking of Japanese barberry, a shrub that has been a long grown as a yard shrub and often kept well kept and nicely trimmed; even shared among ...

TRAVERSE CITY — Local environmental officials have a thorn in their side — literally. A popular decorative shrub called Japanese barberry comes with sharp thorns and dense foliage, often in shades of ...

I am tired of pruning my overgrown barberry and Spirea shrubs in my front landscape. What would you suggest for replacement shrubs that will stay under 4 feet without pruning and keep their leaves all ...

Pennsylvania is considering banning the Japanese barberry because its aggressive growth crowds out native plants and — more alarmingly — it’s an ideal home for the kind of ticks that carry Lyme ...